Ammonia is gone!

I have developed an ammonia issue in my diapers over the last few weeks. I think I was just going too long between washing (3 days) and stripping with dawn ddnt really help.

So yesterday I was at petsmart buying crickets for my daughters lizards and I saw this bottle of ammonia neutralizer in the fish section. I though, "hey let's try this...why not?"

I did my normal cold rinse, hot wash with detergent, cold rinse cold rinse. Then I did another hot wash with this ammonia neutralizer solution and let them soak for 30 minutes. Then I closed the
lid to my top loader and let the wash cycle run followed by two cold rinses.

My diapers have zero ammonia smell anymore! They smell like nothing, it's amazing. I've used them on my son and there hbe been no skin reactions or stink hiding in the diapers. It's like
brand new diapers! I have no idea what is in this bottle but it doesn't seem to have caused any buildup. Just though Id share! Here is what the bottle looks like:

So when the nose hair burning started, I read every forum I could find. I went to my cousins (she has TLer) and washed and washed and washed with no detergent to try and remove buildup. Didn't help. I emailed RnG for help and Kim kindly responded an sent me some samples of Funk Rock and Hard Rock. I rocked several overnight soaks, one in the Funk Rock followed by my wash routine. Didn't work. Rocked a Hard Rock overnight soak followed by normal routine, didn't work. Then I stripped with Dawn original and rinsed and rinsed and rinsed. No luck. When my DS wet his diaper, they immediately smelled like ammonia.
Then I found this forum and it has saved my life (well, my nose at least)! I read all 30+ pages and decided to go to the pet store. I bought Aqueon Ammonia Neutralizer. I soaked about 20 dirty diapers and inserts in a 10gal bucket of really hot water with 1tsp of AR (it came with a measuring lid and I followed recommendation on bottle). I did a 3 hour soak and then washed like normal, but the first diaper still smelled like ammonia when DS peed :(
Then, I tried a different approach. I used the TLer and prewashed in Funk Rock then did an overnight soak with the AR (this time I used enough AR for 40gals of water). The next day I washed like normal with Hard Rock, and am happy to report that he's peed in about 10 diapers now and NO AMMONIA!
Now I will say that once the diapers sat in the pail the ammonia did return, which leads me to believe that my storage method is the problem. So, I'm working on that now (probably going to try the AR spray bottle since a few on here have had success). At least my little guy doesn't have to sit with that nasty strong ammonia on his hiney anymore!!!

Just found a link to this post regarding ammonia smell in CD. Lately, LO CDs have had such a strong ammonia smell it made my eyes tear up. I tried stripping, detergent change, even made sure that there were zero bubbles.

Tomorrow, I have to go out to buy some goods at Target and will go into their pet section and pick some up. If the ammonia bothers me that bad, I can only imagine how bad it must be for LO. I'll post back here with an update in a day or so! Thank you so much for this post!!!

Im trying this now! Got Top Fin 8oz bottle for $5.99 it was on sale @ Petsmart. My 18 month old son, who's not circ, gets ammonia burn rash were his forskins swells red and the skins peels away. Rash starts w/in 2 hrs of being in a cloth dipe (Dr said this is the forskin doing its job or his actual penis skin would b peeling, we treat it w/ perscript antibiotic creme). Bad ammonia smell after pee. Funk Rock did nothing but cost me $. I know I had detergent build up that I think is gone now by doing A TON a hot wash cycle w/ no detergent. Im about ready to give up CD & cry if this doesnt work. I've been a CD'r for 10 years (thats why I have some Bumkins AIO's :) I have a pricey stash (sloomb anyone?) i NEED this top fin stuff 2 work!

Are you getting ammonia stinks after a pee diaper, yes in the morning only, yes all the time, only certain parts of the year, no never?every dipe! ammonia burn rash w/in 2 hrs!

What type of laundry detergent? RnG hard rock 2.0, now Im trying Hard Rock Remix, but thinking on switching 2 EcoSprouts. I also just got a NORWEX magnet ball 2 get my hard water more soft. What type of water do you have hard, soft, normal? Moderatly HardHow do your store your soiled diapers before laundry dayl?Zipped planet wise wetbags. How often do you wash, every day, every other day, every three days, every four days, once a week? Every 3-4 days

Yesterday was our first day in dipes after the ammonia remover soak. All the dipes through out the day (Sloomb & Grovia's) HAD NO AMMONIA! No ammonia smell at all & no more ammonia burn rash. I just changed the first overnight dipe (Sloomb snapless fitted) and he had ZERO rash, BUT SOME AMMONIA SMELL. Not too bad & this is a HUGE improvement as we can finally CD again The room didn't smell like ammonia & you could only smell it if you put the dipe up 2 your nose, holding it in my hand I couldn't smell anything. I'm gonna do the Top Fin overnight soak again 2nite. We have 8 months of ammonia 2 get out. One more soak should do it. I'll report back 2morrow

I'm reading this but I am very weary of putting this on my diapers. It is made for fish tanks. I know some people said if it was harmful it would hurt the fish but to me that's not a good enough analogy. oh well back to find some way to get rid of this smell.